Ladies and Gentlemen! The proper question should be who said it first in American History, what exactly did he say, and to whom was he referring?

Answer: Thomas Jefferson, just after the first revolution in the States and the ratification of the Constitution. I believe, if memory serves me, the slaveholder writer and signer of the Declaration and voting ratifyer of the Constitution was here and not in France when he uttered the epithet against light complected and brown African American slave women when he was haviing a particularly trying time with Sally Hemming- his pretty and voluptuous slave concubine. TJ's conscience apprarently troubled him all his life even though it came along with some native generosity; sometimes he often had fits of rage and pique against Africans and the British. Often he blamed the British for introducing the poor innocent American colonists to the vulnerabilities of mercantile plantation life and the joyous culpabilty (hence irresponsibility) of slaveholding and increasing your flocks of workers with illegitimate children, who always followed the condition of their mothers into slavery and bondage. He blamed Sally - his mistress - for being beautiful and becoming the object of his amorous lusts. (He was not as attracted to his wife as he was her, folks speculate, but who really knows!) Because of this he became a man of pent up rage and anger and guilty nightmares. Well, I shouldn't throw stones, good was left behind in his life, I suppose, except for the fact that Black males have a similar residual anger and lust it would seem toward Black women. We young black men can't even pronounce whore properly! Ho is funnier and more "in" - wouldn't you say! But. Forget the socio-history for now.

The descriptive phrase in English from Middle English he used was (in the middle of his preroration of course): "...those nappy headed wenches...!"

A wench of course was a girl or young woman, sometimes a serving girl (waitress) who for a couple of pounds or less would bed the man or men she served supper and later was a common adjective for a poor street prostitute or even high class hooker, most of the latter had powerful friends in the monarchies and nobles and one could be hanged or worse for calling an enterprising hooker to nobles a wench. You dare not have ever called the winsome Sally a wench...but he did. Jefferson had a deep approach/avoidance with Black lovely women...